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Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies, he would go on to publish another eleven novels in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983... Read More
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William Gerald Golding 19 September 1911 Newquay, Cornwall, England
Died
19 June 1993 (aged 81) Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England
Samuel Mountjoy, an artist, is promised torture in a prisoner-of-war camp, then locked in a cell in total darkness to wait. Sammy comes from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. He sees too what men might be, and what he has made of himself by gradual progressive choice. It sends him on a pilgrimage back through his life, seeking its point of departure Topics: Artists, Prisoners of war, Self-perception, Artists, Prisoners of war, Self-perception
Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a... favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
byGolding, William, 1911-1993; Phillips, Brian; Feldman, Ellen; Zorn, Jeremy
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